BlizzCon 2013 Announced

[Quirel]

You take that back! FemShep x Tali shall be a romance for the ages! D:<

As for Tali... I liked her a lot more when the helmet stayed on, and this stock photo nonsense was only seen from lazy artists on Deviantart.

[TheEconomist]

League of Legends is too similiar to WarCraft (and therefore WoW) to be made into a successful MMO unless it really, really is unique, but then you're probably better off just keeping the MOBA format with premium content.

[Hawki]

In all seriousness, I'm still expecting announced expansions for ALL their major titles, with the small chance of Titan or a Warcraft IV.

You're forgetting Blizzard All-Stars. We'd get it before a WCIV announcement nowadays. Heck, we'd get a Titan announcement before WCIV as well.

And the chances of a LoL MMO are probably slim... don't get me wrong, I really like LoL, and I actually did keep up on the lore (back when they posted the newsletters that ranged from lore tidbits to being chocked full of story) back when they actually had a writing staff doing more than just coming up with champion bios and leaving it at that.

They have a huge player base to tap, and if even ten percent of the people who play LoL decided to buy the MMO, it would probably be a financial success. Even so, it just strikes me as... unlikely.

Can't comment too much, but...well, LoL is to the MOBA genre what WoW is to the MMORPG genre. Would Riot Games want to jeprodize that monopoly by taking players away from it?

Lore-wise, I guess it's possible, if a MMO was set before the League of Legends was actually formed and magic ran rife (or whatnot, limited knowledge of backstory here), but again, there's the financial aspect.

League of Legends is too similiar to WarCraft (and therefore WoW) to be made into a successful MMO

In what way? They share a similar aesthetic as far as I can tell, but apart from that...

[TheEconomist]

Art, focus on heroes, the lore is the similiar, characters are similiar, high fantasy setting, attempts to be an all-encompassing mixing of fantasy tropes, I could go on and on and on. The game is a DotA clone, which borrows heavily from WarCraft.

[Gradius]

So who's ready for HoTS launch day? I'm predicting this:

[TheEconomist]

Sheesh Grad, give Blizzard the credit they deserve. I'm sure they'll use a different server busy error code for HotS Totally expect them to keep the red though since who really wants to palette swap these days.

[Alar]

Looool.

[TcheQuevara]

Heh, undoubtly.

At least we can play the campaign offline.

Btw you guys know there will be a SC2 developers AMA in Reddit in 20 minutes right?

[Alar]

Heh, undoubtly.

At least we can play the campaign offline.

Btw you guys know there will be a SC2 developers AMA in Reddit in 20 minutes right?

Say whaaat? I'm glad to be awake, then!

[Hawki]

So who's ready for HoTS launch day?

Depends what you mean by "ready." I've got my collector's edition pre-ordered and ready to ship on one level, but won't be installing it right away. If you mean "ready" in the sense of everything the release will bring on a community level, I...well, let's just say I'm reminded of the effects WoL had on wiki editing back in 2010, and not in a good way.

Totally expect them to keep the red though since who really wants to palette swap these days.

If we don't get purple or orange, I'm asking for a refund. It's a zerg expansion, let the colours reflect it!